Made of carved whalebone; elongated curving "pin" with zoomorphic flattened head-shaped finial with perforations through ears.
Donor:
J. N. Force
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
J. N. Force
Collection date:
1909
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Traps (trapping equipment)
Accession date:
July 20, 1928
Context of use:
Rod to hold trigger of trap for foxes and other small mammals; to fasten line of deadfall.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 28.3 centimeters
Comment:
See Krause, "Tlingit Indians", Pl. IV # 3-6; also in Lt. Emmon's fieldnotes, according to Bill Holm. Also Niblack, "Coast Indians of S. Alaska and N. British Columbia", p. 302, fig. 145a,b (U.S. National Museum) and Drucker, "Indians of Nw. Coast", p. 53 American Musuem Science Books edition. For similar example cf. 2-38460.
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955) and S1967-1968 #52: Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor (December 28, 1967–March 19, 1968)